Yes, Chella Man’s full identity is complicated — he even says so himself.

“There is an extreme lack of representation for young, Deaf, queer, Jewish, Asian, transgender artists — sorry, that is a mouthful!” he told Teen Vogue in October 2018. “I decided to be my own representation.”

And so he has. The 20-year-old actor, model, and social media sensation has been cast as Jericho in season 2 of “Titans,” a superhero show from the DC universe made for the web. It’s historic, and as much a coup for DC as it is for Chella, who is perfect for the role of Jericho, an intense and emotionally complicated hero (and sometimes villain) who communicates via sign language.

“Jericho made his DC Comics debut in 1984’s Tales of the Teen Titans #43 (after making a cameo appearance in Issue #42), by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, and has the power to possess anyone upon making eye contact with them. The character has always used sign language to communicate with his teammates, as he was rendered mute early in his life by kidnappers who were attempting to blackmail his father.”

The actor is ecstatic to be taking on the role. “As a trans, Deaf, Jewish POC, I have always reminded myself of the power in my differences,” he wrote on Twitter. “It’s a dream come true as I will now be able to showcase this power on the Titans.”

This means so, so, so, so, so much to me. As a trans guy who’s an aspiring actor, I have never seen or related to anyone like me in media. Ever. I haven’t seen anyone. I don’t know how to explain how much this truly makes me happier than anything.— cactus boy 🌱 (@Cactus_Mother) March 20, 2019

@chellamanart THANK YOU FOR BEING SO WONDERFULLY AUTHENTICALLY TRANS and CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR ROLE like I cried when I saw the announcement?? Because I thought I would have to give up my dream of acting when I started transitioning?? And you give a guy HOPE👏🏻👏🏻 Can’t wait!!— Jack. (@TheSteinStan) March 20, 2019

A new niche trend has arisen: pensive photos of teens balancing on the cattle car train tracks that lead into the Auschwitz memorial. Makes you nostalgic for the innocent days of concentration camp selfies and innocent games of Swastika beer pong, doesn’t it?

The Auschwitz Memorial Museum has posted a frustrating plea on social media for young visitors to stop using the rails on the train tracks at Auschwitz as a “balance beam.”

“When you come to @AuschwitzMuseum remember you are at the site where over 1 million people were killed,” a representative for the museum wrote on the site’s official Twitter page on Wednesday morning. “Respect their memory. There are better places to learn how to walk on a balance beam than the site which symbolizes deportation of hundreds of thousands to their deaths.”

When you come to @AuschwitzMuseum remember you are at the site where over 1 million people were killed. Respect their memory. There are better places to learn how to walk on a balance beam than the site which symbolizes deportation of hundreds of thousands to their deaths. pic.twitter.com/TxJk9FgxWl— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) March 20, 2019

Accompanying the tweet is a series of pictures of young people tripping coltishly down the thin steel rails just beyond the infamous gates of the death camp.

This is not the first, second, or third time that keepers of a Holocaust memorial have put out a frustrated plea for visitors to use more restraint, especially as it pertains to social media. The trend of concentration camp selfies caused a stir earlier in the decade, concurrent with the even more mystifying trend of gay men taking sexual photos at camps and memorials and posting them to dating profiles.

It’s true that the train tracks are iconic and an exciting opportunity for on-the-go exercise. But hey — if Aly Raisman can do two back flips off an actual balance beam and land on her feet, maybe the rest of us can find a narrow object to balance on that didn’t usher innocent people to their deaths.

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A new book, “Kushner, Inc” by journalist Vicky Ward, calls itself “the first explosive book about Javanka and their infamous rise to power.” The gleaming hardcover, bearing the words “Greed. Ambition. Corruption.” promises to “dig [sic] beneath the myth the couple has created.”

This is a case of beautifully coiffed snake eats tail — digging into the glamorous power couple only heightens their mystique, as inquiring journalists are no doubt aware. The cottage industry of tell-all “investigative” books about White House regulars will soon have to be re-labeled the penthouse industry, so profitable is it in the Trump era. Who can hand-wring over the fate of a future Trump library when the President’s machinations have inspired an entire genre, compelling tabloid writers, journalists, and ousted members of the administration to put pen to paper?

Ward says she interviewed 220 people for “Kushner, Inc,” from Gary Cohn to Ivanka’s high school tour guide. Cohn may as well be wearing a monocle and smoking a black cigar, so ludicrously does this book’s cast resemble that of a murder mystery whodunnit.

Ward says that Ivanka aspires to the presidency — sees it as hers — sees herself as the next in a family dynasty, and that a family employee told Ward that the couple “[Has] no idea how normal people perceive, understand, intuit.” Ward says she learned that Cohn was upset about Trump’s reaction to the Charlottesville marchers. (Who could have leaked that flattering tidbit?)

Ward says that Bannon told Ivanka “F**k yourself … you are nothing,” that the Kushner family refused for six years to meet their son Josh’s “stupid,” uneducated, “shiksa” girlfriend (now wife) Karlie Kloss, and, again and again, that the family is opportunistic and underhanded to the point of corruption.

The space between quotes, facts, speculation, and psychobabble is next to nil. The dizzying cocktail’s effect is more of a grand and glamorous myth than ever, just like the Trump family likes it. Just like they liked it on the day when Ivanka told America, at the Republican Convention, that her father is fair, and a fighter for the lower class, and a champion of gender equality. Just like on the day when Melania wore the “I don’t really care” jacket, and the day when Ivanka couldn’t stop sharing pictures of her joyful toddlers at the height of the family separation crisis, and every day when Americans have listened to their president say that his bumbling son-in-law is going to fix the Middle East. That top American thinkers take this blend of gossip and misty reporting seriously is a sign that the Trump-Kushner family is doing just fine, thanks.

Who are Jared and Ivanka, really? Here’s one thing we know for sure: They’re a lot better at this than we are.

Jenny Singer is the deputy life/features editor for the Forward. You can reach her at Singer@forward.com or on Twitter @jeanvaljenny

The rest of us pretty much have to stick to the painstaking process of thinking through and then carefully fleshing out our ideas.

After weeks of controversy, convolution, and contrition from Representative Ilhan Omar over her tweets about Israel, the freshman congresswoman finally did what she probably should have done all along — released an op-ed fully explaining her opinions about the relationship of the United States and Israel.

In a piece published in the Washington Post over the weekend, Omar explained that in seeking to have an “honest conversation about U.S. foreign policy, militarism and our role in the world,” she applies her personal experience as a child refugee of war in Somalia.

Given that background, which is singular in the United States Congress, she says she believes in U.S. foreign policy that “truly makes military action a last resort.” When that philosophy applies to Israel, she says, it means remembering that Israel is “the Jewish people’s historical homeland [as well as] the historical homeland of Palestinians.”

“I support a two-state solution, with internationally recognized borders, which allows for both Israelis and Palestinians to have their own sanctuaries and self-determination,” Omar wrote. This represents a major shift in tone for the Minnesota representative, whose comments have been interpreted by many as anti-Israel.

I am so down with this. Thank you @IlhanMN for this piece, let’s work toward a two state solution and let the US be a force for peace and freedom and justice for all https://t.co/cOkXRO7IAe— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) March 18, 2019

Silverman, whose sister is noted Israeli Reform rabbi and activist Susan Silverman, has been open about her connection to Israel, as well as her staunch support for liberal causes. She has explicitly supported the two-state solution in the past.

Silverman thanked Omar on Twitter for her apology for her infamous “AIPAC tweets” and her words about the reality of anti-Semitism. Without directly defending Omar during the tweet controversy, she did share a video featuring comments by writer Thomas Friedman, who explained the financial power of AIPAC.

She also tweeted an article by writer David Rothkop, highlighting a quote from Rothkopf’s article — “We must be careful that we do not allow the justifiable aspects of the critique against Rep. Omar to lead to a reflexive position where we silence active criticism of the Israeli government, or the worst actions of the State of Israel.”

Two strong women, united again to create peace and equality! All’s well that ends well, unless you don’t like Ilhan Omar, Sarah Silverman, peace, or equality. A Sarah Silverman music video featuring new congresswomen next, please.

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And what does the Schmooze say when a supermodel-slash-entrepreneur converts to Judaism and marries a Jewish real estate scion turned investor but then doesn’t acknowledge it for months, and the whole thing has shades of, like, biblical protagonists meeting at watering holes?

Well, well, well, well.

Karlie Kloss, 26-year-old beautiful person, confirmed during press for her new stint on “Project Runway” that she converted to Judaism prior to marrying Joshua Kushner, of those Kushners.

We already knew that Kloss converted to Judaism because we weren’t born yesterday, unlike Kloss, who maintains the smooth skin of an infant. But it’s nice to hear it from the very un-horse-like horse’s mouth, we suppose.

Appearing on Andy Cohen’s “Watch What Happened Live,” Kloss took a question about whether or not she converted to Judaism prior to her marriage to Kushner.

“I joined the tribe, mazel,” Kloss responded.

“Nice, you’re a nice Jewish girl!” Cohen said.

Ugh — was this dialogue written by a robot that was forced to watch 10,000 hours of “The Goldbergs”? Wake us when Cohen and Kloss do an interview from inside a 400-gallon tub of hot cream cheese, because these kinds of references to Jewish culture writ-lite are a bigger bummer than sermons about cell phone usage.

Besides, your friends at The Schmooze reported on Klossy’s low-key mikveh habit, like, 10 Rosh Chodeshes ago. It’s an open secret that Kloss has been davening down town for years now — she has obviously been prioritizing her Jewish identity. Besides, there was just no way Seryl and Charles were allowing their son’s fiancee within 18 cubits of a chuppah without the nod of approval of a beit din.

In case you haven’t been following — Kloss and Kushner married in an intimate ceremony in upstate New York in October 2018, after six excruciating years of the younger-Kushner brother filling his Instagram with upsettingly beautiful pictures of Kloss. The couple is thought to represent the vestigial liberal branch of the Kushner-Trump clan, though we’ve seen little of late to suggest that.

Do we sound jaded? Only a fool would dream that the union of two beautiful Jewish people with a tangential connection to the President might bring a sea change in US politics. But we indeed were such a fool! A million mazels to Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner. May your boutique boxing classes and cycling studios bring you from strength to strength.

Challah back, and Just Jew It and l’chaim to empty words and empty calories, and pray to God that global warming gets you before white supremacy does. Mazel!!!

Jenny Singer is the deputy life/features editor for the Forward. You can reach her at Singer@forward.com or on Twitter @jeanvaljenny

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